Discoverable, Accessible, Reusable, and Transparent (DART): Scholarly Communications and the Research Museum. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Global Summit of Research Museums. Berlin. 5 November 2018.

1. Discoverable, Accessible, Reusable, and Transparent
(DART): Scholarly Communications and the Research
Museum
Martin R. Kalfatovic | ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4563-462
Global Summit of Research Museums
Berlin | 5 November 2018

2. Some Questions …
 Are there commonalities across research museums in
different disciplines when discussing open scholarly
communications, data, and collections?
 What are the key differences in these same areas across
research museums in different disciplines?
 Opening up research museum collections expands there
use; what are the key metrics for showing impact of use and
how does that relate to impact of publishing and data?

3. Scholarly Communication in a
Research Museum
Research Museums are based
around a world of material
culture. The collections, of
which the public sees only a
small part, are the basis for
much of the scholarly work
that occurs by researchers at
these museums

4. Scholarly Communication in a
Research Museum
In many cases, the
metrics of scholarly
communication needs to
address the issues around
the use of the collections
as raw material in the
scholarly process.

5. What's DART?
 Discoverable
 Accessible
 Reusable
 Transparent
Report from the “What is Open?” Workgroup. Rick Anderson, Seth Denbo, Diane Graves, Susan
Haigh, Steven Hill, Martin Kalfatovic, Roy Kaufman, Catherine Murray-Rust, Kathleen Shearer, Dick
Wilder, Alicia Wise. Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, Vol. 1, 2016DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13021/G8XK5R
Taken together, these form a
spectrum of open for the scholarly
communication

6. Why Should Research Museums Be
DART?
https://aoasg.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/benefitsofopenaccess_cc-by_logo.pdf
 Researchers in developing
countries can see your work
 Taxpayers get value for money
 Practitioners can apply your
findings
 Higher citation rates
 More exposure for your work
 Compliant with grant rules
 The public can access your
findings
 Your research can influence policy

7. Plug for the Biodiversity Heritage
Library

8. Why Some Data/Collections Aren't
Open
 Intellectual Property Right
 Copyright
 Moral rights
 Trademark
 Patent
 Rights of Privacy and Publicity
 Personally Identifiable
Information
Smithsonian Directive 609 (rev. 11 July 2011)

9. Why Some Data/Collections Aren't
Open
 Contractual restriction
 Native American and Native
Hawaiian human remains and objects
 Cultural items returned to their
country of origin because of the
circumstances of acquisition
 Rare, threatened or endangered
species
Smithsonian Directive 609 (rev. 11 July 2011)

10. Why Some Data/Collections Aren't
Open
 Images, other media, or data that
reveal the location of archeological,
paleontological, geological, sacred
and historic sites
 Uncertain provenance and export
records (e.g., Holocaust-era assets)
 Conservation, management,
inventory, valuation, and other
business records
Smithsonian Directive 609 (rev. 11 July 2011)

11. Metrics of Scholarly Communication
Smithsonian Examples

12. Metrics of Scholarly Communication
Many of the reports
are standard impact
analysis, but for the
past few years,
Altmetrics have
been employed to
provide an
additional lens into
the impact of
research.

13. Research Information Management
Smithsonian Libraries manages
over 86,385 Smithsonian-
authored scholarly publications &
datasets through Smithsonian
Research Online (SRO), is
launching an expertise-locator
platform called Smithsonian
Profiles, and spearheading a
movement towards institution-
wide Research Data
Management

14. Research Data Management
Increasingly,
institutions must
manage not just
the outcomes of
scholarly
activities, but the
data that
underlies the
published/public
outcomes.

15. Identifiers: Keys to Research
Information Management
 ORCID for People
 DataCite for Data
 DOIs for Articles
 … and many more!

16. Identifiers: Keys to Research
Information Management
ORCID for Facilities
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute | Barro Colorado Island

17. Identifiers: Keys to Research
Information Management
ORCID for Facilities
 Researchers do not often report on their use of facilities or specialized
equipment when they are publishing papers, datasets, or other research
results. When they do, it is usually in the acknowledgments section of a paper
and not in a standardized form.
 Publishers do not often collect information on user facilities, instead focusing
on funding sources for the published work that are related to journal article
access policies.
 User facilities require researchers to acknowledge use, but there is both a lag
between use and publication and no general standard for citing usage.
 Differing understanding of terms such as “author”, “user”, and “funding” among
stakeholders present barriers to effective reporting.
 All of the stakeholders see value in using APIs and persistent identifiers,
including ORCID iDs and DOIs, to enable reporting processes.
https://orcid.org/blog/2017/12/07/using-identifiers-capture-and-expose-facilities-use

18. “The worth and importance of
the Institution is not to be
estimated by what it
accumulates within the walls of
its building, but by what it
sends forth to the world.”
— Joseph Henry (1853)
Smithsonian Secretary

19. Some Questions …
 Are there commonalities across research museums in
different disciplines when discussing open scholarly
communications, data, and collections?
 What are the key differences in these same areas across
research museums in different disciplines?
 Opening up research museum collections expands there
use; what are the key metrics for showing impact of use and
how does that relate to impact of publishing and data?

20. Thank You | Vielen Dank!
Martin R. Kalfatovic | ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4563-462
Global Summit of Research Museums
Berlin | 5 November 2018